Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now.The place to be happy is here.The way to be happy is to make others so.- Robert Green Ingersoll

There can be but little liberty on earth while menworship a tyrant in heaven.- Robert Green Ingersoll

Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.- Robert Green Ingersoll

In the presence of eternity, the mountains are as transient as the clouds.- Robert Green Ingersoll

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignoranceof the gentleman who reads it.- Robert Green Ingersoll

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments;there are consequences.- Robert Green Ingersoll

Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god.Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little,that generally the god market was fairly glutted andheaven crammed with these phantoms.- Robert Green Ingersoll

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought,at least, you are without a chain; that you have theright to explore all heights and depth;that there are no walls nor fences,nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.- Robert Green Ingersoll

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds ifthey accord liberty to me.If they hold thought to be dangerous -if they aver that doubt is a crime,then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.- Robert Green Ingersoll

The superior man is the providence of the inferior.He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak,and a shield for the defenseless.He stands erect by bending above the fallen.He rises by lifting others.- Robert Green Ingersoll

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle.Truth scorns the assistance of wonders.A fact will fit every other fact in the universe,and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact.A lie will not fit anything except another lie.- Robert Green Ingersoll

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)

To know God, watch a butterfly return to the same tree -after a year and a thousand miles.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you may count every drop of water in the ocean andcount every grain of sand in the sea -multiply it by a thousand and that's how much I love you.- George of Langkloof

Better than a thousand hollow words,is one word that brings peace.- The Buddha

If the stars should appearbut one night every thousand yearshow man would marvel and stare.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single actis better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Do the difficult things while they are easyand do the great things while they are small.A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.- Lao Tzu

It is better to conquer yourselfthan to win a thousand battles.Then the victory is yours.It cannot be taken from you,not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.- The Buddha

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishmentand the other by acts of love. Power based on loveis a thousand times more effective and permanentthen the one derived from fear of punishment.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The easiest kind of friendship for meis with ten thousand people.The hardest is with one.- Joan Baez

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.- Euripides

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Drop guilt! - because to be guilty is to live in hell.Not being guilty, you will have the freshnessof dewdrops in the early morning sun,you will have the freshness of lotus petals in the lake,you will have the freshness of the stars in the night.Once guilt disappears you will havea totally different kind of life, luminous and radiant.You will have a dance to your feetand your heart will be singing a thousand and one songs.- Osho

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evilto one who is striking at the root.- Henry David Thoreau

Faith is a living and unshakable confidence,a belief in the grace of God so assured thata man would die a thousand deaths for its sake.- Martin Luther

I give you this one thought to keep -I am with you still - I do not sleep.I am a thousand winds that blow,I am the diamond glints on snow,I am the sunlight on ripened grain,I am the gentle autumn rain.When you awaken in the morning's hush,I am the sweet uplifting rush,of quiet birds in circled flight.I am the soft starts that shine at night.Do not think of me as gone -I am with you still in each new dawn.- Traditional Native American Prayer

God has cared for these trees,saved them from drought, disease, avalanches,and a thousand tempests and floods.But he cannot save them from fools.- John Muir

I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes,I had one thousand and sixty.- Imelda Marcos

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it mustbe taken one step at a time.- Lyndon B. Johnson

There is a sacredness in tears.They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues.They are messengers of overwhelming grief ...and unspeakable love.- Washington Irving

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers,and failure is an orphan.- Alan Price

Though we may know Him by a thousand names,He is one and the same to us all.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Victory has a thousand fathers,but defeat is an orphan.- John F. Kennedy

I try to give to the poor people for lovewhat the rich could get for money.No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds;yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.- Mother Teresa

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry.One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed.These are fearful odds.- Benjamin Disraeli